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75% of billboards being LED? That's a little optimistic. Cost per pixel is going to have to drop by some big proportions before we see LED-based billboards being used in a lot more places. Our company has put up a couple in some very high traffic locations. Right now, the cost for a decent...

Usually I am very good at identifying fonts, but I am completely stumped on this one: (image attached; scan of a black and white laser printed page...apologies). We're going to have to do some refurbishment work on the existing sign shown in the photo, possibly making new letters and a good...

Billboard faces I design are output on seamless wraps as wide as 16'. 10' X 30' and 14' X 48' are pretty common layouts. I don't design billboards at 10ppi. That's a bit too low in resolution for comfort. It might work when seen from the extreme setbacks of an Interstate highway, but the flaws...

The "No Fear" thing is a logo. Not a font.

Yeah... ...so stop designing logos in Photoshop! :design:

There's a big difference between Illustrator CS3 being able to run natively on a Intel-based Mac versus OSX having to emulate PowerPC functions to run IllustratorCS2. Supposedly Illustrator's code for both platforms has been streamlined a good bit, so the Windows version should run at least as...

You're question sounds a little vague. What are you trying to do? If you're trying to draw a simple arc, that's pretty easy to do using the pen tool. You can stroke the path afterward to how ever many pixels in width you need. If you're trying to make a text element do an arc effect, go to...

Creative Suite 2.3 users pay a little under $500 for the CS3 Design Premium upgrade while CS2 users pay close to $600. I've looked around various product reseller sites (New Egg, PC Connection, etc.) and they don't have any of the CS3 products in stock. You can order the products direct from...

I will echo Fred's suggestion to use the Offset Path command for outline effects around letters. That especially goes very strongly for anything having to do with sign work. Stroking paths and laying multiple copies of the same path on top of each other invites very disorganized and highly...

Yeah, you can record actions from within Photoshop and save them as "droplets" which you can apply to whole folders of images.

PMG, I echo Fred's recommendation of using Flash, particularly for the animated GIF you posted. You can move graphical objects in and out of the "stage" very smoothly unlike the stuttered start-stops that tend to occur with GIF image animations. Current SWF Flash players fully support both...

PMG, how many frames are you trying to put into your animated GIF? Most animated GIFs for web display typically have perhaps 5 to 20 frames and use different time settings for each frame to get a greater variety of effects. What color mode are you using to save the optimized GIF? If you're...

Freehand is an enormously picky program when it comes to importing EPS and AI artwork from other applications. Most of the time it simply "places" the artwork in non-editable form and with that anger-inspiring box with an "X" through it. This is one area where Illustrator beats Freehand by a...

Adobe developed the Postscript programming language, which was central to the birth of desktop publishing back in the 1980s. Lots of new printers spoke the language and handled the scalable Postscript Type 1 fonts that grew from it. Aldus was first to market with true Postscript-based graphics...

I can't really live without having BOTH CorelDRAW and Illustrator installed on my computer. The two applications each have some extremely valuable functions unique to them the other lacks completely. A few of Corel's unique strengths: Better path editing tools, particularly at the control point...

It's an even better value than Creative Suite 2 Premium, which was already very impressive. The decision to go between either the Web Premium and Design Premium package is a little tricky. The Web Premium suite has Fireworks and Contribute as exclusives. The Design Premium package has InDesign...

All of the Adobe CS3 applications will run under WinXP Pro. There's no need to buy a new computer system with Vista pre-loaded or install Vista on an existing machine. Further, a lot of the code in IllustratorCS3 has been rebuilt and optimized so the application will actually run faster than...

A bunch of the questions I had about CS3 were answered in Mordy Golding's Real World Illustrator video podcast about the CS3 release. http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/ http://www.creativeprofessional.org/podcasts/rwip_0307.mp4 Alignment functions do now include anchor points. A number of other...

Illustrator's "Average" function is a kludge. Pretty worthless. First of all, it's annoyingly buried in the "Object" drop-down menu and on a fly-out from that (along with a lot of other functions that might be better represented on a context sensitive tool bar). The Average function does not...

Rick, I've been using Illustrator for quite a long time. Please show me exactly where you can select more than one anchor point and apply an alignment function on them. If you're actually aligning control points are you sure you're not using some sort of plug-in...or CorelDRAW? Lots of people...